#misery

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#doing #happiness #men #misery #nothing

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#choose #come #decision #happiness #life

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

#bad #create #fool #misery #moods

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

#again #build #confusion #death #foundation

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#conformity #earth #find #i #i am

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#for the people #great #hunger #misery #people